Munson Fire Department

MFD is a combination fire department staffed with 24 full and part time firefighters and officers. The department has one fire station strategically located in the center of our 25 square mile community. This station is manned on a 24/7/365 basis. Living areas, sleeping quarters and office space is provided at the station. Operating on a minimum staff of 4 FF's and maximum of 5. Housed are 2 Engines, 1 Pumper Tanker, 3 ALS Squads, Heavy Rescue-Air Truck, Achilles R.I.B, a Command Unit and 2 Chiefs units. The fire station is also an emergency shelter in the event of a disaster or large scale event.

The Geauga County Safety Center is the centralized dispatch center for the entire county. It also has the capability of handling multi-jurisdictional emergencies across seven counties in Northeast Ohio. The Safety Center has a jail that has the capabilities of housing 182 inmates and intakes prisoners from surrounding counties due to overcrowding on a regular basis. They have also recently become accredited to house federal inmates for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the US Marshalls.

Running directly through the center of Munson Township is US 322. This major artery handles 10,720 vehicles daily. Also running along our eastern border is SR 44. This road also handles 7,300 vehicles per day.

Our firefighting personnel have the training and abilities to respond to all hazards and emergencies within our township and the surrounding communities with whom we have mutual aid agreements. MFD has three contractual interoperability agreements with our surrounding communities and formal interoperability agreements with thirty seven other communities in Geauga, Lake, Cuyahoga and Portage Counties.